Trooper Clerks Explained

Trooper Clerks is an American animated parody film produced by Studio Creations that depicts Dante Hicks and Randall Graves, the titular convenience store clerks from writer/director Kevin Smith's Clerks films, as Stormtroopers in the Star Wars media franchise, in a satire of both properties.

The film was nominated for the 2003 Official Star Wars Fan Film Awards, and won the Animation category.^[1]

Plot

According to the official web site, "Trooper Clerks is a parody mixing the characters from Kevin Smith's Clerks universe with the settings and characters in George Lucas's Star Wars universe."^[2]

Cartoons

• Trooper Clerks: The Live-Action Trailer - This 1998 shot-for-shot recreation of the 1994 Clerks movie trailer was the first Trooper Clerks project produced by Studio Creations. Clerks director Kevin Smith, wrote the creators an e-mail after watching the trailer online, encouraging them to do more with the parody if they chose.
• Trooper Clerks: The Animated One-Shot - Part I - Being told that their jobs are in peril due to cutbacks, Stormtroopers Dante and Randal embark on a quest to steal the Death Star plans by hiring the station's Sith duo in training, Darth Jay and Darth Bob.^[3] Darth Jay is portrayed as Darth Maul from Episode I, with the black stripes on his face in the shape of a cannabis leaf. Darth Bob is based on Darth Sidious, and is referred to as "Silent Palpatine".
• Trooper Clerks: The Animated One-Shot - Part II - Dante and Randal continue their quest for gainful employment while Darth Jay and Darth Bob pull every trick in the book trying to snatch the plans from its ultra-secure location.^[3]

External links

• Official web site

Notes and References

1. Pérez-Gómez . Miguel Ángel . 2016-02-09 . El fan film: paradigma de la cultura participativa en el entorno de los new media . es . PhD . 541-542, 548-549 . Universidad de Sevilla . 11441/39617 . March 25, 2022.
2. Web site: Trooper Clerks. Trooper Clerks.com. July 25, 2015.
3. Web site: Trooper Clerks- Films and Cartoons!. Trooper Clerks.com. July 25, 2015.